Reaching our “goals”

And we’re back! Immediately, after we finalized our plot, we knew coming up with our script would be a breeze, so we decided to complete this aspect of our planning next. In doing so we decided to finalize different elements of our film, such as the characters and mise-en-scene, into developed dialogue.

Characters

We’ve established our characters' names and traits in writing our script. Our main character is Gabriel, nicknamed Gabe, who loves soccer and wants to pursue it in his future, however, his parents doubt this because soccer is not a reliable or successful enough career, so they believe he must improve his grades to get into a good college in order to do well in life. Because of this, there is an internal struggle developed in Gabriel making him question his confidence in his ability to play soccer and pursue it in real life, in addition to the struggle between him and his parents. The other character we are introducing in our film opening is Daniel, the side character who is our main character’s best friend. Although not much of his character is established in the opening, we do know that he is one of Gabe’s biggest supporters because he is watching him practice and cheering him on and looks concerned when Gabe says doubtful things about his soccer abilities or want to play it in his future simply because of the impact his parents have on him.

Mise-en-scene

Even though there are some notes in our script that describe what is happening motion-wise, emotionally, and physically during the opening, everything that is not a spoken line, we definitely have room to further develop our plan to include specific mise-en-scene elements within our opening. For example, we indicated how Daniel will look concerned when Gabe says the line, “I just don’t want to let my parents down.” However, there are still specific set design and instructions that we didn’t decide on yet or include in our script, such as what our characters will be wearing, so we will have to specify these small, but relevant details later and include them where they are needed on the script. 

One of our main goals when creating our script was to establish the character and some of the general types of conflict the main character will receive throughout the entire film. To do this we tried to rely much more on visuals and meaning created by camera shots and angles, acting, the mise-en-scene, and more rather than purely dialogue or conversation. Overall, we are really excited to see all the broad ideas we researched and discussed less than a week ago become specific details in the reality of a film opening that will be recorded and produced soon.